What is Flickr?

http://www.flickr.com/tour/

Finding Creative Commons Images in Flickr

See 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story Guide http://50ways.wikispaces.com/Finding+Flickr+Photos
Search in flickr (not easy, must search within licenses) http://flickr.com/creativecommons
Compfight (my favorite) • http://compfight.com/
Behold • http://www.behold.cc/
Photos for Class • http://www.photosforclass.com
Simple CC Flickr Search • http://johnjohnston.info/flickrCC/

Try Compfight http://compfight.com/

Set Option "Creative Commons"
Try "Tag" search first
Ignore the Shutterstock ($) images above the line
Use General to Specific strategy

The Art of Search

For a more updated approach, see the Mozilla Teaching Kit I made that uses the ImageSeek tool

The quest: Looking for a photo to represent broken web links, or a failed search.

What are the words that describe what we are looking for?

What are other words that might represent it?

What metaphors might represent the concept?

What are words that describe what it looks like (action words, adjectives)?

These search terms did not work out well

broken link • http://compfight.com/search/broken%20link/1-3-1-1
broken chain • http://compfight.com/search/broken-chain/1-3-1-1
broken wire • http://compfight.com/search/broken-wire/1-3-1-1
wires • http://compfight.com/search/wires/1-3-1-1
wires cut • http://compfight.com/search/wires-cut/1-3-1-1

But this one did!

frayed • http://compfight.com/search/frayed/1-3-1-1

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by concretecandy: http://flickr.com/photos/fairtomiddling/146271311/

Indirect Approach - Try actions, places, adjectives

Looking for photos to represent Excitement ? Try Leap
Looking for photos to represent Research ? Try Chemistry Lab
Looking for photos to represent something that is boring ? try Yawn

Include a Character

Let's say we are looking for a photo to represent learning, as an indirect, we might try "reading" as an action word-- but add a character depending on what kind of mood you want to suggest.

child reading • http://compfight.com/search/child-reading/1-3-1-1
dog reading • http://compfight.com/search/dog-reading/1-3-1-1
cat reading • http://compfight.com/search/cat-reading/1-3-1-1
lego reading • http://compfight.com/search/lego-reading/1-3-1-1

It's Your Turn

Describe the idea you would like to represent in a visual
List keywords that might work for searching
Brainstorm other descriptive words that might work
Experiment with Compfight.com save URLs for your search attempts and best pictures found
Share your results http://bit.ly/imageq-compfight

1000 words • creative commons • finding • bonus tools • attributing

Image Q Finding Good Photos